Zarif Says Iranian Delegation to Be Sent to Lebanon and Take Part in Probe with Al-Majed
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif' announced on Friday that Tehran will send a delegation to Lebanon to take part in the investigation with Majed al-Majed, the Saudi national suspected of being behind the bombings of Iran's embassy in Beirut.
"Iran decided to send a delegation to Beirut to participate in the investigation with al-Majed because he played a role in threatening stability and in killing two Iranian employees at the embassy and several Lebanese nationals,” Zarif explained.
Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency said Zarif telephoned caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour and conveyed to him Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's appreciation of “efforts made by Lebanese officials to arrest the prime suspect in the terrorist attack on the embassy in Beirut.”
Meanwhile, Mansour hoped that security and stability would be restored in the country and the region.
The caretaker FM also “valued Iran's readiness to cooperate with Lebanon in the investigation.”
The military institution announced earlier on Friday that the army intelligence had detained a dangerous terrorist that was confirmed to be al-Majed after carrying out the necessary DNA tests.
Al-Majed is the suspected chief of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, which claimed it carried out a deadly November 19 double suicide bombing at Iran's Beirut embassy that killed 25 people.
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